1995 Soviet Union presidential election (New Union)

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1995 Soviet Union presidential election
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← 1990 14 March 1995 2000 →
Turnout 78.5%

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Candidate Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Party CPSU Democratic Union LDPSU
electoral vote 109,746,161 41,897,623 22,149,316
Percentage 54.85% 20.94% 11.07%

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Candidate Gennady Zyuganov
Party WPSU
electoral vote 21,388,997
Percentage 10.69%

President before election

Mikhail Gorbachev
CPSU

Elected President

Mikhail Gorbachev
CPSU

The 1995 Soviet Union presidential election took place on March 14, 1995, and was the first popular election conducted in the Soviet Union since its formation in 1922.